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Chapter 25 Summary

Ginny, reading about the mounting war casualties in The Daily Prophet, told Harry, Ron and Hermione that Romilda Vane had so little to do that she'd asked her whether it was true that Harry had a hippogriff tattooed on his chest. She'd answered, no, that it was a Hungarian Horntail. Hermione showed Harry a picture of a witch named Eileen Prince, whom she suspected was the "Half-Blood Prince." On his way to Dumbledore's office, Harry heard Professor Trelawney scream. He sprinted to her and asked if she had been trying to get into the Room of Requirement. After he learned that a now jubilant Malfoy had repelled her from the room, after she had entered to dispose of some empty sherry bottles, he thought she should tell Dumbledore.

On their way to his office, she mentioned that it was Snape who had overheard...